Woman Reunited with Children She Thought Were Dead After 34 Years

Victoria Rohring had been told her children were killed in a car crash. But 34 years later, she found out that was a lie, and was reunited with them.

By Kathryn Hawkins. Posted on August 10 2010

A photo of Scott and Karen Black as children

In October 1976, Victoria Rohring received a horrifying phone call: a stranger informed her that her 5-year-old son and 7-year-old daughter had both been killed in a car crash, along with her ex-husband, Jimmy Black.

Something didn’t ring true about the call, and so Rohring hired private investigators to track down her family. But when nothing turned up, she was forced to realize that she would never see her darling children again.

But this summer, Rohring received another mysterious phone call: this time, bearing good news. A woman told Rohring that she was helping Rohring’s son, Scott Black—whom she’d believed to be dead—to find her. He would be calling her that evening, she said.

At first, Rohring thought that the call was a sick joke, but she knew otherwise when she talked to her son that night, for the first time in 34 years. Immediately, she made plans to meet Scott and her daughter, Karen, at Scott’s home in Georgia the following week. The family reunion was full of tears, and joy.

“You live your whole life being told one thing and then you find something else,” Scott Black told the Today Show, “and the person who was taken away from you at an early age, you finally get them back.”

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